Cur­r­ent­ly in Bel­gra­de all Media is Blo­cked, Spread the News! : pics – “Recent­ly they were all requi­red to sub­mit their soci­al pro­files – insta­gram, face­book, vk etc. so that employ­er can check on them and their views. They were also requi­red to make their accounts public, and tho­se who didn’t (inclu­des my sister-in-law) got their accounts hacked.”

David Bad­diel on why Ken Livingston’s com­ments on Isra­el are unac­cep­ta­ble – ” Main­ly, in truth, though, I don’t care that much about Isra­el. I think, in fact, that it is anti-Semitic to assu­me that I have to care, or think about, or have a posi­ti­on on Isra­el, a coun­try that, in the wor­ds of Mor­ris­sey, says not­hing to me about my life. I don’t even think it’s a very Jewish place. In The Infi­del, my film, a cha­rac­ter whilst describing various types of Jews, says “And then Israe­lis – Jews without angst, without guilt – so not real­ly Jews at all.”

But: I do care about anti-Semitism. And the pro­blem is that an awful lot of anti-Semites – often uncon­scious­ly – do con­fla­te anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Inde­ed, they often just con­fla­te Israe­lis with Jews. ”

Shin­gō, Aom­ori – Wiki­pe­dia – “Shin­gō vil­la­ge is the loca­ti­on of what is pur­por­ted to be the last res­ting place of Jesus, loca­ted in the “Tomb of Jesus” (Kiri­s­u­to no haka), and the resi­dence of Jesus’ last descen­dants, the fami­ly of Saji­ro Sawaguchi.[3] Accord­ing to the Sawa­gu­chi family’s claims, Jesus Christ did not die on the cross at Gol­go­tha. Ins­te­ad his bro­ther, Isukiri,[4] took his place on the cross, while Jesus fled across Sibe­ria to Mutsu Pro­vin­ce, in nort­hern Japan. Once in Japan, he beca­me a rice far­mer, mar­ried, and rai­sed a fami­ly with three daugh­ters near what is now Shin­gō. While in Japan, it is asser­ted that he tra­v­eled, lear­ned, and even­tual­ly died at the age of 106.”

I Work in the Restau­rant Indus­try. Oba­ma­ca­re Saved My Family’s Life. – Eater – “Thanks to Oba­ma­ca­re, which meant my pre­exis­ting con­di­ti­ons were no lon­ger allo­wed to be held against me, I was able to afford coverage that got me tests, scans, biop­sies — the who­le fun-time packa­ge I had mis­sed so much. The­re were plenty of things to be sca­red of, but that fear of being left out in the cold to die so insu­rers could plea­se their inves­tors was final­ly gone.”

Why Oba­ma­ca­re enrol­lees voted for Trump – Vox – “I guess I thought that, you know, he would not do this, he would not take health insuran­ce away kno­wing it would affect so many peop­les lives,” says Debbie Mills, an Oba­ma­ca­re enrol­lee who sup­por­ted Trump. “I mean, what are you to do then if you can­not pay for insuran­ce?”

A Plan Set Up To Fail – Paul Krug­man: “It’s an ama­zing specta­cle. Obvious­ly, Repu­bli­cans backed them­sel­ves into a cor­ner: after all tho­se years denoun­cing Oba­ma­ca­re, they felt they had to do some­thing, but in fact had no good ide­as about what to offer as a repla­ce­ment. So they went with real­ly bad ide­as ins­te­ad.”

New York Expects Fewer For­eign Tou­rists, Say­ing Trump Is to Bla­me – The New York Times – “On Tues­day, the city’s tou­rism mar­ke­ting agen­cy, NYC& Com­pa­ny, plans to announ­ce that its fore­cast for inter­na­tio­nal visi­tors has tur­ned from posi­ti­ve to nega­ti­ve sin­ce Mr. Trump was elec­ted in Novem­ber. The city now expects to draw 300,000 fewer for­eig­ners this year than in 2016, when 12.7 mil­li­on inter­na­tio­nal visi­tors came, a decli­ne that will cost busi­nes­ses in the city that cater to tou­rists at least $600 mil­li­on in sales, the agen­cy esti­ma­tes.”

Sean Spi­cer tar­gets own staff in leak crack­down – POLITICO – “For Trump, a cable TV addict who has long obses­si­ve­ly tra­cked news coverage about him­s­elf, the ongo­ing tur­moil in the White Hou­se com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons wing threa­tens to derail the media nar­ra­ti­ve that will help to defi­ne the ope­ning days of his pre­si­den­cy. His deci­si­on to hold a free-flowing news con­fe­rence last week, two seni­or offi­ci­als said, stem­med from a reco­gni­ti­on that he was no lon­ger brea­king through in a news cycle that had tur­ned against him.”

Donald Trump Rejects Intel­li­gence Report on Tra­vel Ban – WSJ – “An intel­li­gence report by the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­ri­ty con­tra­dicts the White House’s asser­ti­on that immi­grants from seven Muslim-majority coun­tries pose a par­ti­cu­lar risk of being ter­ro­rists and should be blo­cked from ent­e­ring the U.S.”

Law Enforce­ment Using Face­book and Apple to Data-Mine Accounts of Trump Pro­test Arres­tees – “Law enforce­ment is com­pel­ling Apple and Face­book to hand over the per­so­nal infor­ma­ti­on of users who were mass arrested at pro­tests against the inau­gu­ra­ti­on of Donald Trump in Washing­ton, D.C., Alter­Net has con­fir­med. The tech giants appe­ar to be com­ply­ing with the data-mining requests, amid moun­ting con­cerns over the heavy-handed crack­down against the more than 200 peop­le detai­ned on Janu­ary 20, among them jour­na­lists, legal obser­vers and medics.”

The truth about refu­gees in Swe­den – The Washing­ton Post – Carl Bildt: “Nume­rous stu­dies have shown that the Bos­nian refu­gees have inte­gra­ted well in Swe­dish socie­ty. On average they do as well, or even mar­gi­nal­ly bet­ter, than tho­se born in the coun­try. And they are ever­y­whe­re: in sports, cul­tu­re, busi­ness and poli­tics. They have given an added fla­vor to our coun­try —(…) I belie­ve they have made Swe­den a bet­ter coun­try.”

Swe­dish poli­ce fea­tured in Fox News seg­ment: Filmma­ker is a mad­man – #last­night­ins­we­den “the poli­ce offi­cers now say that their ans­wers were taken out of con­text, and are very cri­ti­cal of how their com­ments were por­tray­ed on Fox News ”Tucker Carl­son Ton­ight”. ”I don’t under­stand why we are a part of the seg­ment. The inter­view was about some­thing com­ple­te­ly dif­fe­rent to what Fox News and Horo­witz were tal­king about”, says Anders Gör­an­zon.”

“Ever­yo­ne is working 24/7, but Jared, becau­se of his reli­gious views, not only can’t be in the White Hou­se, but can’t be on his pho­ne, can’t dri­ve his car, can’t lis­ten to the radio — he can’t be reached,” says our whist­leb­lo­wer. Obser­vant Jews are pro­hi­bi­ted from working bet­ween sun­set Fri­day and sun­set Satur­day.”

For Ger­ma­ny, Trump Poses a Pro­blem With No Clear Solu­ti­on – “We still don’t real­ly have a clue who we are in the world and who we want to be,” said Jana Puglie­rin of the Ger­man Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­ti­ons. That makes it dif­fi­cult to face increa­singly urgent ques­ti­ons, she said, over “what role we should play, who Ger­ma­ny is, how domi­nant do we want to be.”